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Romances of the Custer Massacre

Whattragedies and mysteries, strang-
er than any revealed on the mimic
stage, transpire in our everyday life
and elude even the keen quest of the re-
porters. Among those who were ga
Zetted as having persisted in the Custer
massacre was Lieutenant Harrington, a
dashing young officer. who had previous
" welded Miss Berard of West Point
No trace of his body was ever discover
ed. Not bone, or button. or scrap
of uniform which had belonged to him
could be found on the fatal field. A
bout two years ago, and nearly 4 de-
cade after the butchery, the wife de-
clared that she had received message
telling her that her husband was not
dead, and she resolved to set out in
search of him. She never explained
her reasons for believing him alive, but
she could not be dissuaded from her
purpose.
Finally she set out. some of her rel
atives going with her While passing
through the Indian Territory she one
day disappeared as suddenly and ALSO
lutely as if the ground had opened and
swallowed her. From that day to this
no trace of her has been discovered
Whether she wandered away in a fit of
mental alteration induced by her grief
or deliberately separated from her party
cannot be determined. All that j.
known is that she vanished without
warning and that her fate is an enigma.
Another romance originating in the
Custer massacre is identified with the
gold watch worn by Lieut.. Crittenden,
who also persisted by the vengeful bull
lets or knives of Sitting-Bull's people.
The watch was present which his
father, Gen. Crittenden, had purchase
in England some time before. 1t be-
came the booty ola Sioux warrior who in
due season, after crossing the line, sold it
to a Canadian rancher or farmer. The
purchaser, suspecting that there must
be some history connected with {, wrote
to the maker in England, describing
the watch and stating itsnumber. The
maker wrote back that the watch had
been originally sold to Gen. Crittenden
of the United States army. Thereupon
the Canadian communicated with the
General. who promptly repurchased
the watch. and it now hangs in his
bedroom in this city, a sad memorial of
the fate that befel his brave boy.-NeW
York Graphic
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London scholars.

The London Echo gives some anus
ing not, from school examinations:
A very striking and suggestive sum
mary of TIE history of the relations
between Great Britain and Ireland was
that of the candidate for a scholarship.
open for competition to all children I'M
der Is years of &c in attendance at the
nolle elementary schools of London.
whose answer to ne question. Write
a short account OF the Conquest of Ire
land. was in the following words:
The conquest of Ireland was begun in
the year ITO, and as stiii going on.
The school textbook gives milk As
perfect example of food which con-
tains all the essential ingredients Of a
mixed diet. The example of a
mixed diet once given by a hoy al "a
written examination was. A sausage. -
The example given by girl at the
same examination was, Roast duck.
potatoes. and green peas. and little
jam tart afterwards.
A number of girls We're recently
examined in the principles aud practice
of household economy. One of the
questions put to them was this:
describe fully the method YOU would
adopt for the preparation of beef tea.
1t was answered by one girl in the
following words: Buy pot of Lie
big's Extract of Beef, aud rigidly follow
the directions on the lid :
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Freezing Does NOT Destroy.

DR.. John 5. Billings. L. 5. A. has
sent the following valuable data to the
SANITARY Engineer: 1t is well-known
that freezing water does not destroy
the vitality of all living organisms con
tanned in it, although it does appear to
kill some of them. To settle the ques-
ton as to the effect of freezing on the
bacillus of typhoid have had the fol-
lowing experiments made: Jan. 10.
1887, five C E" Of sterilized water in a
test tube was inoculated with typhoid
bacillus and exposed to the outer air
during the following night at a temper
allure of about 10 deg. Fahrenheit. II
was found solidly frozen in the morning.
Jan. -. , p. m, this frozen mass was
thawed. and from it there were inocu-
lated three gelatine and one Agar tubes.
Jan. IS. 10 a. m, there was decided typi-
ca development of the typhoid bascillus
in the Agar tube and in two OF the gel
atine tubes. Evidently. therefore, the
vitality of the typhoid bascillus is not
destroyed by freezing
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Protection From Lightning.

Experiments have been carried on in
various German localities looking 10
better protection from lightning. At
Dresden nickel has been successfully
used as material for construction
Its advantages are that it is non-eo
robbie and will keep bright at the
points. thereby increasing the efficiency
of the rods as collectors Of atmospheric
electricity. City Architect Schiller of
Esslingsr states that June : lightning
struck a pear-iree thirty-three feet high.
On one side was a schOOl-house 1l5
feet away, with a rod tifty-siX feet high;
on the other a church, 32S feet away,
with rod 154 feet Both rods were
tested and shown 10 he in perfect con
dition. From this study it becomes
evident that a rod does not protect a
circle the radius of which is more than
twice its height.
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WISCONSIN NEWS.

A block of 20 lots was sold at She
boygan last week for $4,000, cash.
Clerk of the Court Layne, of Vernon
county, has held that position for
twenty years.
Mrs. James Burke, Neenah widow.
is one of four heirs to an estate of
500, 900 in Ireland.
Albert Foster was brushed from a
train at Durand by stock-yard chute
and probably fatally hurc.
A company is being formed at Su-
perior, to produce fuel from crude peat,
of density equal to Illinois coal.
Five young men of the Presbyterian
society of Ripon have pledged them
selves to go as missionaries to foreign
field
Zeb Whipple, of Neenah, fell into his
cellar and broke three ribs. His head
and face were also badly cut and
bruised
More money viii be paid to Oconto
county farmers this winter for timber
than was ever paid heretofore in sim
gle season.
Mrs. Joseph Lornlow, of Fond du
Lac, has given birth to twins, boy
and girl, weighing one and half
pounds each.
Ole Olson, of Winchester, had tu-
NOR, weighing one pound, removed
from his back by Dr. r. j. Anderson.
of Neenah.
Black River Falls declared in favor
of license by majority of over 40 at
the election last week, II is expected
that thief ee will be fixed at $500.
Louis Bribbler, of the town of How,
Oconto county, has doubtless cut and
hauled the largest cedar tree that has
been put into the river this winter. 1t
made twenty-four ties and three posts.
The four championship medals offer
ed by the Portage Curling club, of
Portage, have been won by J. II. Wells,
p. j. Barkman. l.. f. Greenleaf aud b.
e. Meacher.
An assault was made on James Wei
| dig. justice of the peace, at Sheboygan
one night last week by two unknown
men. The attack was made uneXpect-
edly. and in the scuffle Mr.. Wedig'
collar bone was broken.
Milwaukee architects have completed
plans for 1l3 stores and buildings and
dwellings each to cost between $4,000
and $S.0 the coming summer. Mil
waukee is growing very fast and very
solid.
The agent of the Milwaukee Assoei-
sted charities says that the worst case
of misery yet discovered by him was
that of Swiss family on Kinniekinnic
avenue. The husband is drunkard.
the mother isreduced TO askeleton, and
the five children are starved.
The J. /. Case Threshing Machine
company, of Racine. is getting out the
timbers, planking and. other lumber
for warehouse. which they will ship
to Nebraska and there erect 1t.
The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Wsst-
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the sale or purchase OF intoxicants OF all
kinds, and abolished the state of the tobac-
co monopoly. The Moorish tobacco and
snuff shops have been closed. Large guam
titles of leaf tobacco were publicly burned
by the Sultan's order. Several MOors have
been stripped and logged through the
streets for smoking in defiance of the Sui
tan's decree. The populace of Morocco can
see no sense in the Sultan's
commands, and are angry at his
interference with their habits, and
assert that prohibition is enforced only
against the poor.
AT the Papal Consistory at Rome
Iarch IA, announced that Monsignors
DeRendo papal nuncio an
Paris, Rampallo Del Tendaro, at
Vienna, Masala, ex-muncio at Lisbon, and
Bishop Giordani. bishop at FerTa, had been
created cardinals He also announced the APP
pointment of eight Italian, two Spanish
one Portuguese and three East Indian
bishops. The Pope did not deliver political
allocution. He remarked that several car
dinals having died he found it eypedient
To fill the vacancies.
The London Standard, on the 14th,
received cipher dispatch, from what it
considers trustworthy source, saying that
an unsuccessful attempt has been made TO
assassinate Emperor William No detail
has been given.
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Harmless Old Iunatic.

SOmetwenty-tiye years ago the writer
of this paragraph happening in Bangor.
Me, on business, stopped at the Bang
or House for few days. In the bar
room of an evening were generally as
sembled great variety of lumbermen.
with occasionally genuine backwoods-
man fresh from the wilderness. Scrap
ing acquaintance with one of these
hardy fellows. he was found quite COM
municative and interesting, and il was
ascertained that he had on many oc-
caSions been employed as a guide to
parties throughout the wild regions.
Said he: The iolliest party | ever went
out with was made up of scientific fell
lows, who were in search of fish, snakes.
and birds principally. but there was
one old teller they called Professor.
who was perfectly looney on bugs. He
paid me handsomely for specimens.
He was a perfect gentleman, bat
thought him a harmless old lunatic
He had a iaw-breaking name which |
could not pronounce. but / have a copy
of it in my wallet, believe" From
his 'swell-worn calf-skin'' pocketbook
he produced an envelope addressed
Pro-. /. Agdssiz. Cambridge, Mass
Boston BudQet.
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BEEcHER HOUSE AT PEEKsKILL.

Mr.. Beecher was born at Litchiield,
Conn, June "a, 1913, the son of Rev. Ly-
man Beecher, the most distinguished Amer
lean clergyman in the Congregational
church of his day When he was three
years old his mother died, and his father
soon re-maTrying his childhood was passed
under the tuition most devoted step
mother, who won his love lastingly. At the
age of p he graduated at Amherst, and
concluded his theological studies at
Lane Seminary. at Cincinnati, Ohio In
1881 he became the pastor of new church
at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and IN 1859 he
accepted the charge of a church at Indian
apolis, which he served until 1871, when he
had attained such fame that he was called
TO the pastOrship of Plymouth church at
Brooklyn, remaining at its head for forty
years, and attaining the highest position as
an American divine, and the story of his
life is the his tory of the most remarkable
church organization that has existed in this
country. As a pulpit orator he was
without a peer in the world. He achieved
fame also as a lecturer and journalist, his
first labors in the latter field beginning in
1896 as editor of the Cincinnati journal: in
1910 he edited for short time the Western
Farmer and Gardner. at Indianapolis; from
1861 to 1863 he was editor-in-chief OF the n.
Y. Independent; from $50 TO 1881 he was
the guiding spirit of the Christian Union
He found time for literature, and became
circulation, his earlier work in this field
being the Star Papers His weekly SER
mons as taken down by stenographers since
I 1859, have been published under the title of
/ THE Plymouth Pulpit" and form about
twenty volumes. He has also published,
/ ~ ectures to Young Men, Industry and
: Idleness;' - Life Thoughts 'sin two editions,
edited by Edna Dean Proctor and Augusta
/ Moore; Sermons on Liberty and War;
! THE Plymouth Collection of Hymns and
/ Tunes;n Norwood a novel, originally
published in the New York Ledger; Ser
/ mons from Published and Unpublished Dis
courses" in two volumes; .'The Life of
| Christ" in two volumes, and "Yale Lee
lures on Preaching"
During the civil war he visited England
with a view 10 disabusing the public mind
/ there, which was strongly in favor of the
/ Southern side He mad stormy reception.
/ but his great courage, logic and eloqueHce
/ turned the tide, and won for his cause Just
understanding, and from being contemn-
ated and derided he became
the admiration and hero of
all classes, performing a patriotic service
/ for his country of incalculabie value. The
great shadow of his life, the TiltOn accusa-
/ ton in 1874. he met with categorical de
NAL, and the result OF the trial extending
over months, was disagreement of the
| jury, nine standing for Mr. Beecher and
three for Mr.. Triton. This ended the case in
the courts. and from the fire of attack Mr.
Beecher came out practically unscathed
and continued steadfast and ever powerful
in his work to the end.
In August 1887 he married Miss Eunice
Billiard, and of this marriage three sons and
a daughter Mrs. Scoville, wife of clergy
mani with Mrs. Beecher survive. In her
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ONE Of the strongest temperance men
in Connecticut Is Gov Lounsberry.
One night recently. accompanied 10y
mis- staff. he attended a ball in New
Haven In the course Of the evening
he suddenly entered a side room in time
TO discover two of his staff. Col. :. b.
Horne. of Winstead. and Surgeon Gen.
{. J. Fox. of WHlimautic. in the act Of
drinking the health Of GEN ;. K. Smith
in a glass Of punch. In an instant he
took the officers arms and said. Iwant
It distinctly understood that no man
can drink Intoxicating liquors in public
and remain a member of my staff.
he Ct -oncl and general were too much
astonished to reply, and quickly putting
down .1eir glasses they left the room
GOV. ounSberry then filled a glass
with lemonade and said: Gen Smith,
will drink your health in manner that
cannot pos bly result in injury to either
OF Us"
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Devil Extractig.

The Times, of India, says that the
Madras Small Cause Court has brought
to light gentleman who gains his liv-
ing by devil extracting. This highly
lucrative employment appears to be
recognized as a perfectly Legitimate
profession. There was no disguise in
court as to the exact nature of the claim.
In fact, the Judge, native gentleman,
appeared to resent the skepticism of the
defendants pleader as to the possibility
of casting out devils. and his popularity
at the expense of the plaintiffs profess
sion. What. if a doctor does not cure,
ed on one occasion; and on another.
when the defendants pleader expressed
his disbelief in devil extracting, he ir-
consequently observed, ''but you be-
lieve in haunted houses?" To this re-
mark the pleader replied, ''there may
be a spiritual manifestation, from
which it would appear that he is not
altogether free from the superstition
which he ridiculed.
The plaintiffs cross-examination was
very diverting. Diseases, he said,
were of three fundamental, spiritual,
and physical. Some physical sicknesses
he could cure by his arr, but not every
case. Asked if he could cure love pains,
he replied. '.Tha. is a very hard pain
to be cured; eve, my father could not
cure that" H could notcure person
unless he were negative.
Other witne sses called described the
nature of the plaintiffs treatment and
its success. / was inferred that the
evil spirit of the patient in this case
was of the t, male kind. At the con-
clusion of the evidence the worthy
Judge dismissed the suit, not because he
was of opionion that there was no cause
of action. but because there was no
evidence to support the contract sued
upon.
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session, il is thought that the President
will call session to begin in the fall, and
that il will run along into the regular
session.
March Sth, Hon. Arthur Macarthur.
associate justice of the supreme court of the
District of Columbia, at present holding
the criminal court, handed his resignation
to President Cleveland, to take effect April
l, nexd. This action was entirely unex
pected by the members of the bar and
citizens generally. Judge Macarthur was
appointed TO the supreme bench OF the dis
t-ict July 10, 1870, and has since been a
most diligent and faithful judicial officer.
He was. before occupying this position "A
prominent lawyer of Wisconsin, and is said
TO have been a recognized leader of the
Republican party of that state.
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COUNTRY LIFE AND WORK.


When winter fingers In the lap
OF spring. We hasten TO denOuuce him,
And urge her TO put on her wrap
OF emerald hue at once, and bounce him,
She hirts with him until his sands
Have almost run the jade sdmires him
And even, when old Sol commands,
'Tis with re luetance that she fires him.
She soon forgets him, fckle thingl
Through grove aud glade she gayly passei
And meath her fairy feet upspring
The now'rets sweet and tender grasses.
On, on through wales and over hills,
While balmy Southern airs pursue her,
And gurgling streams and rippling rflls
Are babbiing Z nder love tales to her
In greening fields, meath smiling skies
She meets At last a later conner
With rosebnds In her hands che dice,
Ciasped closely In the arms Of summer.
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WAsm SGToN Critic. OF AL the pleas
ant things said Of Mrs Cleveland this
winter the truest Is that no one has Yet
heard from her the slightest suggestion
Of gossip. Inuumerable and a irre>ist-
IDLE a are the opportunities here to a
uuick-witted woman to comment on
people and things. she has never made
the simplest remark which might be
Construed as unkind. Perhaps no lady
in her position was ever a keener read
er Of what others say Of her IN print
than Mrs. Cleveland. and naturally
much Of her knowledge Of the social
doings Of Others comes TO her only
through that medium. She expresses
herself a. beingthoroughly appreciative
of the kin things said 10 and Of her.
particularly Of the success. winch has
followed her career this winter as the
hostess of the White House. and in that
capacity has charmed the most critical
of Washington's cultured resident and
foreign circles.
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l.o 1870, ...g - - statement of the
footings Of the appropriation bills passed at

Total OF actual appropriations 80. 81, IA
The river asd harbOr bill. which was not
signed appropriated S9.9l3.so0, and the
deficiency. which did not pass, though 1t
was agreed upon in conference, carried an
appropriation Of S4,-55,t ..
c. Ii. j. Taylor, colored man. born
in Alabama in 1855, educated at OberIin,
Ohio. College, a practicing lawyer and as
sistant City attorney. al Kansas City, has
been appointed United States Minister TO
Siberia, by President Cleveland,
The impression appears TO prevail at
Washington that the Fiftieth congress will
be called together perhaps in October, in
order that some of the important legisla-
ton 10 come before IL may be matured
early. As questions Of revenue, taxation,
fortifcations and others Of great public
interest must receive attention at the next
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STRAWBERRY CULTURE.

The easiest way to propagate straw
berry plants is to pot the young runners
after they have begun to take root and
while still clinging totheir parent plant.
In about ten days the plant will have
made growth enough to set out in a
new bed. 1t is best to water both the
parent plant and the runners constantly
so as To insure rapid growth. Straw
berry plants set out thus gain one year
over those set out with a trowel or
spade. A good parent plant will in a
season produce about two hundred
runners. The best year of the straw
berry is the third, and it does not pay
to keep a strawberry plant more than
six years. prefer the killing system.
as beirg more productive and requir-
ing less labor. An acre set out in
strawberries may be made to produce
three hundred bushels. The most
vigorous plants are those from which
all runners are plucked. During the
winter mulch of fine manure should
be applied. and during the bearing
season a mulch of straw, hay or sea-
weed should be applied; this latter to
keep the fruit clean. Remove this
mulch rs soon as the berries are over,
so as 10 again admit air and light.
This mulch is beneficial during the hot
weather because it retains the moisture.
but if let stay too long it blackens and
decays the roots of the strawberry.
John E. Pdrnlly.
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IN THE EAST.

At the Sunday morning service,
March 18th, Plymouth church, Brooklyn,
famous by the late Henry Ward Beecher,
never presented a more joyous and gay APP
pearance. 1t was decorated more as for a
Nav day festivsl instead of the occasion
of PlymOuth's late pastors funeral eulogy.
The ravs of the spring morning sun shone
I'm through the east windows of the church
and reflected with exquisite effect the beau
uful shades of color OF the informing
ling flowers and ferns Not sign OF Grape
could be seen anywhere. The edifice was
crowded to It's fullest capacity. The Rev. =.
b. Halliday. Mr.. Beecher's assistant, who IS
az present in charge of the church, assisted
the Rev DR. Lyman Abbott IN the con
Quoting OF the service. DIR. Abbott spoke
for over an hoCr. and the attention of the
audience was only broken by the occas-
iunal sObbing of some of the church mem
bcrs.
The reply of the executors of Samuel
J. TiIden has been fled in the supreme
court at New York to the suit brought by
Geo. y. Tilden. who contests the VIII on the
ground of being illegal and invalid. The
reply recites the names of the relatives and
claims that the plaintiff has no right to
institute or maintain the suit; that the de-
ceased was unmarried. aud his father and
mother deceased; the sister, Mrs. PeltOn,
and the nephews and nieces are next OF kin,
but under the II are not entitled TO any
OF the estate II is denied that the amount
Of the estate is anywhere near Sl5,OO,OOO.
II is claimed, in conclusion, that the
defendaHts are appointed as executors
under the viii, and refer to the original as
their authority.
The New York Central company has
begun steps to do without lamps in its cars,
and so lessen the danger of fire. At the
Grand Central depot an electric company
gave an exhibition of lighting the cars with
incandescent lamps with the aid OF the
storage batteries. A drawing room car
was fitted up with twenty four lamps and
the batteries stored to run two days. The
officers expressed themselves as much
pleased. and others were given to run the
cars regularly between New York city and
Albany
About O'Clock Sunday evening the
18th street car got stuck on the crossing
of the Pennsylvania K. r., at Frankfort,
Az Philadelphia, and was struck by a pas
senger tram. Geo. b. Foster and bis wife
and daughter were injured. The child,
three wears of oge had her feet cut off and
died. Mrs. Foster was seriously injured in
terually and Mr.. Foster had one hand
smashed
Justin Mccarthy, the noted historian
andmember Of parliament, sailed for home
March 2 on the steamer Aller A number
OF friends sent him flowers. and notes bid
ding him God speed from the docks in
New York.